Haley's Transplant Journey

04/29/2026

Infusion #3 and last one before we go to Texas in 2 weeks for a lung biopsy.
Please pray this works 🙏🙌

04/29/2026

Infusion #2 She was wore out!
forgot to post yesterday🤦🏼‍♀️

04/27/2026

Infusion #1

04/26/2026

We made it to Nashville! Time to get some rest. We have to be at the hospital early in the morning for the first infusion

04/26/2026

Some of you already know, but for those who don't, Haley is in mild rejection. We are heading to Nashville today for 3 days of IV steroids, and then she will go back to Texas in 2 weeks for another lung biopsy. Please pray this treatment works.

04/24/2026

04/17/2026

If your aren’t already a donor I strongly encourage you to think about becoming one. I will forever be thankful and grateful for both of our donor families💚💙

04/09/2026

Just got done filling meds for the week

04/09/2026

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Join us all month long as we honor donor heroes, donor families, recipients and those still waiting for the gift of life. 💙💚

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04/09/2026

"Ever wonder how organ transplants work? The recipient takes immune-suppressing meds every 12 hours for the rest of their life so that their body doesn't try to fight the foreign cells, putting the patient into "rejection". This is what is most life-threatening to a recipient. If their body does detect the organ it will destroy it, if the rejection is mild and caught early, it is typically treatable. If not, the patient can die, very quickly. If medications are not taken on time, or missed, it may cause rejection. Rejection is a transplant patient's worst nightmare. Beside missed meds, most rejections happen as a result of a prior illness, which revs up the immune system to fight it off, and while in full-blown attack mode, it finds the foreign organ. This is why it is so important for patients to stay healthy, and why parents of transplanted kids may seem a little crazy when they ask you to use hand sanitizer whenever you come into their home (don't worry, they'll supply it, every one of them I know has a giant bottle by the front door) or cancels a play date if your kid has a runny nose. Besides taking twice as long to rid ourselves of any and every infection because they're fighting with a sad and puny army, any illness can easily grant them a hospital stay, and at the risk of sounding dramatic, potentially cost them their life."

04/08/2026

Update: She is out of the OR and in recovery. Everything went great

Please keep Haley in your thoughts and prayers. She’s getting ready to go to the OR for a stent change, lung biopsy and lavage

04/08/2026

Mondays appointments
1st day of adulting…Im not liking this anymore than she is😂